Celant Germano Essay (17 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Stiff color illus. wraps. Just a hint of handling wear, slightly bumped top corner. Former owner's signature on front flyleaf, otherwise unmarked. 1st ed. 47 pp. + 134 illus. (color, b&w) at rear. Catalog to accompany 1980-81 exhibition. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book. …

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Catalog to accompany 1980-81 exhibition at PMA. Color illus. wraps. Mild shelf wear, a bit of rubbing at corners, nearly as issued. Uncreased binding. 47 pp. w/ 58 b&w photographs + 134 plates, some color, selected bibliography, catalogue. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Book. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Small folio volume. Color illustrations. Fine in fine DJ. 276 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Near fine in wrappers with light rubbing on the rear panel.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. A clean unmarked copy in dust wrapper with considerable fade to the yellow spine and at spine edges. Note the stock image is not correct. Photos on request.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. First Edition First Printing. Companion to the drama of the same name, which premiered in Italy on 11 June 1984 & played around the word through 1986 though never in the United States. Stark black-and-white photographs by Mapplethorpe taken during a stay in Antwerpen, Jan. 1985, by which time he had fully embraced his own "erotic orientation [characterized] by images that were overtly sadomasochistic & gay," are complemented by pen-and-ink drawings by playwright Fabre, created Jan-June, 1984, that emphasize "theatre [based on] bodily suffering." Unpaginated.A FIRST EDITION from a limited printing of 3000 copies from Jan. 1986, this hardcover 4to has glossy black paper over boards with white lettering to front along with a photo of frogs. From the library of the founding chair of the Theatre Dept at UC Davis, it is in Near Fine condition: as bright & clean as Brand New, but marred by a few light foxed spot to outside top & fore edge & a tad of rubbing to lower edge of back cover. Else, binding strong & straight, hinges secure, pages white & unmarked. No DJ, as issued. Our photos depict the Exact book you will receive, never "stock" images of books we don't actually have! Same Day Shipping on all orders received by 2 pm Weekdays (Pacific); later orders, Weekends & holidays ship very next business day. Mapplethorpe, Robert; Fabre, Jan (illustrator).…

Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Soundings. Purchase, New York: Neuberger Museum, 1989. Softcover. 96 Pages. Very good.Closed tear top spine overlapping onto upper right back cover, otherwise light edgewear to covers. Toning to top front and back. Minor curve to bottom right. Binding tight. Inside clean and unmarked.Neuberger Museum catalog from 1981 published to accompany a group exhibition of "the richness of visual artists' use of sound, music and acoustical phenomena, both actual and implied". Extensively illustrated with black & white photographs. Essays by Suzanne Delehanty, Dore Ashton, Germano Celant, and Lucy Fischer.Artists: Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, Joe Jones, George Maciunas, Takehisa Kosugi, Robert Morris, Harry Bertoia, Harry Partch, Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, John Cage, Meredith Monk, Bruce Nauman, Max Neuhaus, Liz Phillips, Terry Allen, Iain Baxter, Marcel Duchamp, Jan Dibbets, Bill Fontana, Terry Fox, John Giornio, Jack Goldstein, Hans Haacke, Yves Klein, Yoko Ono, Sol LeWitt, Jasper Johns, Les Levine, Joseph Kosuth, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, Andy Warhol, Stan Van Der Beek, William Wegman, Bruce Conner, Janis Crystal Lipzin, Michael Snow, Paul Sharits, The Glass Orchestra, Alvin Lucier, David Tudor, and more. ISBN10: 093403205X / ISBN13: 9780934032056.…

SOFTCOVER. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 4to in photo illustrated stiff card covers, 50pp on stiff paper, colour plates, etc . [CONDITION: A well preserved almost AS NEW unmarked copy (faint surface scuff to rear cover) ] . __To see more of our Art Monographs etc type DbbARTIST in the Keywords search box . . We always ship in STRONG PROTECTIVE CARD PARCELS.…

Quarto softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Original stiff wrappers (softcover), 20 unnumbered pages : color illustrations, portrait ; 28 cm. Good/very good, light edge-wear wrappers.

1st printing of 1st US edition. 311 pages, illustrated. Fine hard cover book in fine dust jacket. Errata slip inlaid.

Oversize Glazed Illus. Bds. 1st Edition. Very nice book of photographs and drawings documenting the performance piece by Jan Fabre. 30 Finely printed Mapplethorpe photographs and limited to only 3,000 copies. Fine. Robert Mapplethorpe (illustrator). Book.

Hard. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st. First edition. Hard cover issued without dust jacket. Published London: ICA (Institute of Contemporary Arts), 1986, first printing, January 1986, from an edition of 3,000. 4to., 8 3/4" x 12", unpaginated, illustrated with b/w photographs of Robert Mapplethorpe, pen and ink drawings of Jan Fabre. Laminated pictorial boards and black endpapers. Minor bump impression on top edge/corner of rear baord, else fine, clean, crisp, bright white page block. Mapplethorpe, Robert; Fabre, Jan (illustrator). …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Exhibition Catalogue. Two Volumes in slipcase. Slipcase shows mild wear.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This copy is boldly hand SIGNED in full across the title page by both Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen; with essay by Germanoo Celant; the trade edition of this book is limited 2,500 clothbound copies; published by Electa Milan 1986; with numerous b&w and color illustrations; softcovers with paper wrappers, pp 237; the removable fold-out dustjacket is printed by offset lithograph in four colors measures: 27 x 11in. (28x21.5cm) which is nice for framing; edition size is unknown; sewn bound and offset printed; the book with Bibliography. Documents the history of Il Corso del Coltello (The Course of the Knife), a monumental multimedia performance created by sculptor Claes Oldenburg, writer/curator Coosje van Bruggen, and architect Frank O. Gehry, and performed in Venice in 1985; SYNOPSIS: "An 83-foot Swiss Army knife cruising the Venetian lagoon? In 1985, sculptor Claes Oldenburg, L.A. architect Frank Gehry, and writer Coosje van Bruggen joined forces for an "architectural performance" interweaving an army of characters dressed as objects in a scenario too complicated to summarize. Il Corso del Coltello lovingly documents this urban theatrical from the earliest notes through performance photographs. The event preaching the new architectural order in the shadow of Venetian Renaissance buildings clearly was fun for spectators and performers alike." (Reference: Annette Melville, Research Libraries Group, Stanford, CA; Library Journal, 1987.); book is tight; with just few tiny nicks at the top of the spine of the illustrated wrappers, some kind of mechical mark on first title page, and there are a few small dents in the last pages of the Bibliograph's text in rear of book; otherwise in VERY GOOD COND. Signed by Author(s).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. The 1988 monograph (interview/essay), published on the occasion of the January 1988 exhibition at Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York. Tight and Near Fine in a crisp, Near Fine dustjacket. High-quality black-and-white and color reproductions thruout.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. Fine in black pictorial laminated boards. Lacks the plain un-printed acetate overlay. Quarto. One of 3000 copies. Introduction by Kathy Acker. ; 8 1/2" x 11 3/4".